New Orleans Shaolin

This year’s Summer Intensive Weekend will feature the leader of the 8 Drunken Immortals, Iron Crutch Li, who was powerful even though he required a crutch to walk.

In the 8 Drunken Immortal fighting system, Iron Crutch Li’s form uses mostly kicks, but specifically thrown from moving the hips and body as if we’re flinging our legs around. This style of kicking teaches us to use the momentum of our bodies and flow to put power into our kicks, rather than isolated muscular strength.

In the 4 sessions of this Summer intensive, we’ll learn the Iron Crutch Li form which consists of 165 kicks. Each session will also include applications of certain movements from the form as well as Grandmaster Sin The’s famous stretching set. We’ll also use one session to do a rigorous hip and leg mobility workout to improve our kicking ability.

This intensive is designed to give us a fun and challenging event to drastically improve our kicks. We’ll also be working on kicks in all classes during July.

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Monday, June 22nd at 6pm we’ll be having photos taken of our Kung Fu class by Stephen Lomonaco

Wear your gi and bring your weapons. You know we need some weapon shots!

It’s that time again… World Tai Chi Day! It’s when we go out in public to demonstrate and promote tai chi as a wellness and energy practice. This year we’ll be doing a short donation-based class OPEN TO ALL and then some of us will do some demonstrations including sword, staff, iron fan, and a section of the Yang 64 posture form. If you’re at all interested in tai chi this would be the time to join us!